GOD

[Doc]

As pointed out earliar, religion also gives people who litterally have nothing a hope that things will get better and that there is somebody out there trying to help them. This cannot be bad can it?.

Man Climbs onto roof of house during a severe storm and flooding.
Neighbour shouts up "we´re leaving for high ground come with us!"
"no" says the man, "God will save me!"

An hour later with the waters rising, a fireman in a boat paddles past and says"come down I will row you to safety!"
"no" says the man, "God will save me!"

Another hour later with the water lapping at his feet a helicopter hovers overhead and the winchman shouts down "grab this we will save you!"
"no" says the man, "God will save me!"

A Further hour later the water rises, engulfs the man, he drowns and goes to heaven. On meeting God he crys "God I prayed everyday, church 3 times a week, comminted no crime or evil thought and in my hour of need I reached out to you and you abandoned me!! WHY???!!!"

God frowns and answers " I sent you a neighbour, a boat and a helicopter, what else do you want me to do!!??"

Old joke but a good point, having something to believe in is good but hasnt God given us what we need upfront? Why sit and pray when we should get off our asses and crack on?

[Rogue Chef]

Ahoy there!
I'm God and so is my wife!

[Frank S.]

One thing that can get you through the toughest times is hatred. High grade hatred.
But it's best to know where your switch is before use.

[BigDanny]

I dont believe in God, some people (no offence to anyone who does believe in God) need to believe there is someone out there looking over us because they cant comprehend that we are alone.
But thats just my view, dont mean to cause offence, Im just voicing my opinions

[El Prez]

"This is a newsflash - a missing page of the bible has been discovered. Initial translations are interpreted to mean the following: This book is entirely fictional. Any connection between characters or events in this book with real life are purely coincidental"

[goreD.]

Like a bit bit of Red Dwarf eh Prez?

[anglo-saxon]

For myself, I do not subscribe to the "corporate God" theory; a comfortable, vague non-entity that fits perfectly in a politically correct society (often referred to as a "higher power"), nor do I buy the "this is all there is" drivel. As for evolution, scientists are rather awkwardly (and with some considerable embarrassment) rewriting history (so to speak) in light of the fact that Darwin's theories have been fundamentally debunked.

I respect the right of every human being to have his or her own belief (or glaring lack thereof). But I feel distinctly sorry for anyone who believes that this life is all there is, with a whole lot of nothingness at the end.

Just about anyone who has survived a "near death" experience, be it the horrors of war, a terrible accident, or dangerous illness, has had occasion to ponder the infinite. After all, our lives are but a brief interlude between the two poles of the infinite. And what about the loss of a child? Who, in their right mind, would not hope for something more?

When I look back at the person I was many years ago, I can barely recognize myself. On the face of it, I was a decent enough guy, but there are a great many things that I either did or didn't do back then of which I am less than proud.

I am a Christian now, and have been for a number of years. I'm not a mere church-goer: I don't really have a soft spot for organized religion which, even in so-called Christian circles has been shown to be hypocritical and even divisively in error. It is because of this that I am not in the least bit surprised at the cynicism (and even animosity) of many towards "the church". Rather, I rely on a personal and very real relationship with the living God and belong to a small church of like-minded people. Each day I fundamentally fall short of the perfect standard demonstrated to me through His grace, but each day I am restored and carry on.

My own faith is singularly and unwaveringly in Jesus Christ and in his saving grace. Sure, that is neither trendy, nor politically correct these days (if it ever was!). Some may even term it as eccentric in this day and age. So be it. I've never been one for trends anyway, and my value of the opinions of people pales to insignificance in light of His view of me.

I'm not a Bible-basher, but I will freely talk to others about my faith (or about theirs). I believe that the Bible is the divine and living Word of God and no mere mortal will tell me otherwise. In my experience, most people who deny the divinity of Christ or of God's Word are singularly poorly versed in such matters and so reach their opinions blindly and with prejudice. It's a good job such little research is not the way of our scientists or military planners or we'd be in a real fix! Even from a purely humanistic point of view, what manner of person would publicly condemn the contents of a book without having read it for themselves, let alone fail to study such an involved text as the Bible in depth before making conclusions? I wonder!

I believe that for every child who has ever gazed in wonder at the night sky and silently asked, "who made the universe?", there is an answer; one so simple and delicate, and yet so bold and crushingly vast in its magnitude.

From a soldier's point of view, for me Psalm 23 sums it up perfectly.

[got1]

I was brought up as Cof S. I went to sunday school in the morning and then went to the big church from there and then back to church on sunday evening.I was forced to go, I think I was twelve when I rebelled when I was pretty sure God didn't live behind the big organ pipes.
I joined the army and got forced to go on church parade, you didn't have to go in, you could stand outside.
I now pray twice a week,on Wednesday and Saturday. He answers half my prayers usually, but somtimes gives me 4 numbers. Oh! and I pray every time I go fishing.
As long as it does no harm to anyone else, believe what you like.

[Gary_amsterdam]

I don't beleave in the sence that there is some guy sitting up on a cloud. I do beleave in powerfull force that is behind everything, I have experienced some very strange things in my life like telekinisis/telepathy and the only way I can possibly make sense of them is if there is some kind of energy all around us.

Modern day science is still in the cradle if you ask me, 500 years ago we thought we knew it all when actually we knew shit all, in another 500 years we'll look back at 2004 and laugh at how stupid we were.

Who is to say the speed of light is the limit? Who is to say we understand the universe around us? I think we are only at page 1 of a really big book, there is so much more out there, meaby our brains don't even have the capacity to understand or grasp certain idea's or technologies.

You always get a huge bunch of people saying we are being spied on by aliens and so forth, this seems impossible to most including myself but then again, if there is an alien race advanced enough to travel 400 or so lightyears to our earth then they probably have powerfull enough technology to study us like ants without us ever knowing.

I have faith in myself and even though I don't beleave in god I still pray, I don't know who I'm praying to but it helps and it makes me feel good that something or some kind of anything is watching over me. I don't want you guys to think im some kind of paranormal freak but I have had REAL experiences with telekenisis and telepathy myself, things wich can't just be 'a coincidence'. I beleave there is so much more than we know now, there is some kind of energy around us wich we yet have to discover, the ultimate discovery will be when we discover how to tap energy from space-time itself, or it will be our downfall. (if we all aren't dead yet).

Meditation is good, I have been doing it regulary for about 2 years now and I plan to do it during my time in the army too, I'l probably get the piss ripped out of me constantly but I don't care.

[Ploggers]

Been away for a few weeks but now I'm back.

God, big question. How about the truth for 99% of us. We would like it to be true but the truth is we don't really know.

Imagine, if you will, that you had never heard of god until one day in you adult life the theory was explained to you.

God is the top man although you can't see him. He is everywhere all the time and he is three people at once. He created the world in 7 days - eat your heart our McAlpines! He created a world with Adam & Eve who had two sons and from there the world was populated. A really close family then! He sent down his son to get nailed to a couple of railway sleepers. By doing this he saved the world. Hang on I thought you said God was omnipotent. Why would he have to torture his offspring?

Important get out clause: Remember that any questions that cannot be answered are a matter of faith.

Having had a catholic upbringing I could go on about nuns beating up schoolchildren. These days we call it child abuse, if it walks like a duck and goes quack.....

Personally I think the truth is that we as a species are not advanced enough to understand. It's like the universe being infinite thing, our brains cannot comprehend something that has no end. The human mind thinks that if you travel in a straight line forever, eventually you have to come to the end of the universe, so what is beyond that?

[sits back and indulges in a moment of pondering]

[mercury]

I don't believe in Dave Allen does that count ?

[Scouse G]

I look at religion as being a mountain, the peak is God/Allah/Budda , Whoever and the paths leading up to the peak are the different religions, 1 supreme being just lots of different ways to get there no right ,no wrong way but all uphill
Scouse G

[Kanadiana]

I look at religion as being a mountain, the peak is God/Allah/Budda , Whoever and the paths leading up to the peak are the different religions, 1 supreme being just lots of different ways to get there no right ,no wrong way but all uphill
Scouse G

Your views are similar to mine ...

Karmen

[Frank S.]

A philosophy professor walks in to give his class their final. Placing his chair on his desk the professor instructs the class, "Using every applicable thing you've learned in this course, prove to me that this chair DOES NOT EXIST."

So, pencils are writing and erasers are erasing, students are preparing to embark on novels proving that this chair doesn't exist, except for one student. He spends thirty seconds writing his answer, then turns his final in to the astonishment of his peers.

Time goes by, and the day comes when all the students get their final grades...and to the amazment of the class, the student who wrote for thirty seconds gets the highest grade in the class.

His answer to the question: "What chair?"

[Jordiman]

I believe Jesus was as much the son of God as was Brian. "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy".